{"nrhp_refnum":"72001360","name":"Ysleta Mission","other_names":["Mission de Corpus Christi de la Ysleta"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"U.S. 80 near jct. with Zaragosa Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Ysleta","county":"El Paso County","state":"TX","lat":31.69106590000007,"lon":-106.32765844,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1972-07-31","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Historic - Aboriginal","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Ysleta Mission (Mission de Corpus Christi de la Ysleta) is a Catholic mission church on US Highway 80 in Ysleta, El Paso County, Texas. The present building is largely a 1907 reconstruction on the footprint of the church erected on this site in 1744.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the mission is significant for its architecture and its long history, dating its Tigua Indian community to 1682. It is described as unique among the region's missions for having served the Tigua community continuously from its founding to the present. The Tigua still hold ritual dances in the plaza and keep a tribal civil organization, including the office of casique.","narrative":"Ysleta Mission, formally Mission de Corpus Christi de la Ysleta, is a Catholic church on US Highway 80 in Ysleta, Texas. It began in the 1680s as a refugee settlement for Tigua and other Pueblo Indians displaced from New Mexico, and the present church was built on its site in 1744. A fire in 1907, started when chemicals placed in the belfry to drive out bats ignited, destroyed most of the building. It was rebuilt quickly using the surviving sacristy and walls, so the size and shape resemble the eighteenth-century church. The main facade has a three-story tower with late Victorian wooden decoration, while the rear transept and sacristy show Spanish Colonial character. The mission is noted for serving the Tigua community without interruption since 1682. Tigua families still perform ritual dances in the plaza and keep the office of casique, a chief title dating from Spanish authority. Franciscans founded the mission, and the Jesuits have administered it since 1881.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian facade decoration and late classical revival interior (1907), with a rear transept and sacristy showing Spanish Colonial mission influence","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as good and altered, on its original site; occupied and in religious use. Administered by the Jesuit Order since 1881.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:18.768229-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/35/9718/40971835/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/72001360.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72001360/c02070ae0f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72001360/c02070ae0f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"YsletaMission.png: James Reyes. Original uploader was JamesReyes at en.wikipedia derivative work: Materialscientist (talk)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:YsletaMission.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">YsletaMission.png: James Reyes. Original uploader was JamesReyes at en.wikipedia derivative work: Materialscientist (talk)</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:YsletaMission.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40971835","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ysleta_Mission","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8059780"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/el-paso-county/ysleta-mission-72001360/"}